EGYPT
HAS FALLEN, HAS FALLEN!
EZEKIEL
32
Today we stand at the grand finale of God’s judgments that began in Ezekiel 25, against godless pagan nations surrounding Israel.
Chapter 32 is a funeral dirge for the empire
of Egypt. Right after this chapter, the book of Ezekiel pivots from a message
of destruction to a message of restoration, the duty of the Watchman, and the future
hope of Israel. Chapter 32 is the gateway between judgement and hope.
The date of this prophecy is recorded as March 5, 585
B.C. That means this word came from Almighty God roughly two months after
Jerusalem had been burned to the ground by Babylon.
To the natural eye, it looked like the godless systems
of the world were winning.
Sound familiar?
Egypt stood proud, wealthy, prospered by the Nile, protected
by oceans of wilderness to the east and west. Pharaoh Hophra could look out
over his kingdom and think he was invincible, untouchable.
But God always sets a deadline for the demise of pride.
About 15 years from the date of this prophecy Babylon marched into Egypt killed Pharaoh and knocked Egypt to her to
her knees, a blow to this day she never fully recovered from.
Once again verifying the absolute certainty of God's Word and the sovereignty of the Almighty has never nor will ever, be deterred
by a royal throne, an enormous army; or even by, especially by... the outcome
of an election.
Today, we’ll look at the history of this text;
what happened.
Then, we’ll look at the HIStory—(HIS
story); the prophetic types and shadows that reveal what is happening
and will happen in our not-so-distant future.
We will break this into three sections:
I. THE GRIDIRON (earthly
pride, 1-16). The battleground of this life.
II. THE GRAVEYARD (eternal
penalty, 17-32). God takes us from Gridiron of this life to Graveyard of the afterlife.
III. EGYPT AND BABYLON: PROPHETIC TYPES
AND SHADOWS
I. THE GRIDIRON (EZEKIEL 32:1–16)
This first half of the chapter details the physical,
earthly destruction of this proud superpower.
Pharaoh viewed himself as a majestic lion or a powerful
river dragon, a master of his own destiny.
But God looked at him as an arrogant beast whose days
were numbered. Look at the language God uses in verses 4 through 6:
“I
will cast you out on the open fields, and cause to settle on you all the birds of the heavens, and with you I will fill the beasts of the whole earth. I will lay your flesh
on the mountains and fill the valleys with your carcass. I will also
water the land with the flow of your blood...”
When a nation relies on its own wealth, its own power,
and treats the Almighty like an afterthought, with lukewarm apathy, God causes
that nation to atrophy.
He uses Nebuchadnezzar’s sword to pierce Egyptian pride.
He darkens their skies. He muddies their waters. He leaves them desolate.
Giving them the unmistakable message:
God
indeed governs in the affairs of men.
The Lord puts it like this in verse 15: Then they
shall know that I AM the Lord.
This is not just, pathetic history, it’s prophetic HIStory.
Notice the prophetic message woven in the words of Ezekiel:
Birds and beasts eating human flesh; water flowing
with blood; this is a foreshadow of the final judgment of this world’s system.
Revelation
14:20
And the winepress was trampled outside the city, and blood came out of the
winepress, up to the horses’ bridles, for one thousand six hundred furlongs.
Note: 1,600 furlongs is 200 miles. That is the length
of the Promised Land, top to bottom.
Church, this is not a little limited localized
judgment. When God’s final Divine judgement falls against the godless one world
system (Babylon), blood will saturate the entire planet.
Revelation
19:17–18
Then I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying
to all the birds that fly in the midst of heaven, ‘Come and gather together for
the supper of the great God, that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains,
the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and
the flesh of all people, free and slave, both small and great.
Egypt on the gridiron of God's judgment is a shadow of
what happens to every system, every government, every empire, every person,
that stands against the King of kings.
II. THE GRAVEYARD (EZEKIEL 32:17–32)
Now as we move from the gridiron to the graveyard, let’s
read Ezekiel 32:17-32.
Two weeks after the first prophecy, God commands
Ezekiel to wail, not just for Pharaoh, but for the multitude of Egypt, the
entire empire.
This section is a tour through the graveyard of nations;
the pit (Sheol; Hades).
The once proud and powerful empires are there.
Assyria, Elam, Meshech, Tubal, and Edom. These caused terror in the land of the
living. They had the biggest and best chariots and horses, and the most secure borders.
But the grave balances the scales. You can’t take it
with you.
Jesus sheds more light on the subject. In Luke 16:19-31, He told of a rich man who lived in luxury, wrapped in fine linen, secure in worldly riches. But when he died, he found himself in the torments of Hades (Sheol).
The rich man looked across a great gulf and realized his
earthly riches, his social status, couldn't buy him a drop of water to cool his
tongue in that torment.
The world promises everything and delivers nothing. If
a man gains the whole world but loses his soul, he has gained nothing and lost everything.
Jesus says it like this:
Matthew
16:24-26
24 Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come
after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. 25 For
whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my
sake will find it. 26 For what profit is it to a man if he gains
the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange
for his soul?
III. EGYPT AND BABYLON: PROPHETIC TYPES
AND SHADOWS
Now we move from history to HIStory.
Dear Church, our text today comes alive in the here
and now when we understand the prophetic types and shadows playing out here.
To set the stage please remember how God originally
delivered Israel from physical bondage in Egypt with a mighty hand. Yet, when
they were in the Wilderness of Freedom, they shrank from the weight and responsibility
of the liberty of Godliness.
They looked back at the meat-pots of Egypt. They preferred slavery with cruel taskmasters over the accountability of freedom and holiness.
They weren't the only ones, they did it in Jesus’ day,
they do it today
John
1:11–12
He
came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. but as many as received Him,
to them He gave the right to become children of God...
And why did they not receive Him?
John
3:19
And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world,
and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil."
Humanity consistently chooses anonymity over accountability.
Darkness instead of Light. They’d rather sit on the side and hide in the darkness
of a worldly system, rather than stand in the light and liberty of Christ.
Now, I pray we see how each thread of God’s Word is woven together into a Powerful Prophetic tapestry.
Egypt represents Worldliness—the
proud, self-sufficient, materialistic security that says, “you don't need God,
the treasures of Egypt, the pleasures of this world, meet and satisfy your
every need.”
Babylon represents the New World Order—the
aggressive, devouring global system that moves in to conquer and convert
everything under a single godless banner.
As Revelation 13:15-17 declares:
he
(the
false prophet) was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast
(antichrist), that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many
as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. 16 he
causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a
mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and
that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the
beast, or the number of his name.”
Church, look at the demonic imitation. The Holy Spirit points people to worship Jesus Christ. The false pushes people to worship
the antichrist.
Notice, the Holy Spirit prompts and leads. The demonicratic system forces and pushes.
This antichrist deception that devolves into the new world order has already begun. We are allowing it to happen right before our very eyes, through lukewarm apathy.
Look at the data from our recent midterm elections:
Approximately 62% to 65% of the total registered voter population in America identify
as Christian, however only 17% of voter turnout in midterms were “Christians.”
That means a large percentage of so-called Christians never
even bothered to cross the street to vote.
Additionally, 67% of Jewish voters cast their ballots
for a Jew hating, antisemite, anti-Constitution, anti-Christian, antichrist
like, marxist muslim Abdul Al Sayed.
(Not
to mention 8 men who identify as women, won seats in congress. Not to
mention 20 million new voters seemingly materialized out of thin
air. Isn't that about the same amount of illegals welcomed in during Biden
regime?)
But we’re not mentioning any of that stuff.
When God's people sit it out, when we refuse our
responsibility to be salt and light, then, we the people of God, willingly hand
the reigns of our nation, our lives, our children's lives, to the demonicratic one
world government of Babylon.
THE
CHURCH LOST THE ELECTION
THE
CHURCH HANDED THE NATION TO DEMONICRATS
CONCLUSION: THE WORD OF THE LORD ENDURES
FOREVER
Hear what the Spirit of the Lord says to the Church.
Egypt has fallen.
Babylon has fallen.
But make no mistake the proud, self-sufficient,
materialistic worldly spirit of Egypt is on the rise.
The aggressive, devouring, conquering, Babylonian
banner of a Godless one world governance, is metastasizing rapidly right before
our very eyes.
Just as God’s Word forewarns.
Don’t be deceived, the demonic spirit of Babylon will
rise to world dominance.
But don’t be dismayed. It’s just a shooting star, it will quickly fall as foretold in Revelation 14:8, 18:2: “Babylon is fallen, is fallen...”
Isaiah 40:8, Matthew 24:35, 1 Peter 1:24.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but the Word
of God endures forever.
The darkness may seem to be winning, but 1 John 3:8
reassures us:
For
this is why the Son of God was manifest, to destroy the works of the devil.
Jesus came to pick a fight with the devil, death, hell
and the grave...
He did.
And won!
And is coming again for the knockout punch to shatter
the works of darkness, dissolve the demonicratic system of this world, and
establish His Eternal throne just as Daniel 2:44 guarantees:
And
in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall
never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall
break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.
Psalm
20:7
Some trust in chariots and some trust in horses but we trust in the Name of
the Lord our God.
Let’s pray.
Lord Jesus, thank You for showing us the gridiron
and the graveyard, the Truth of this life and the afterlife. Now please help us
to believe it and do something about it. Dear Lord we pray You wake us from the
atrophy of lukewarm apathy. We pray for a passion to obey You, to be salt and
light, preserving and illuminating the atmosphere around us, so that of all You’ve
given us, none are lost.
Thank You, Lord.
We love You, forever.
Amen.
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